Keywords: Racial Discrimination Act
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AUSTRALIA
- Frank Quinlan
- 22 August 2007
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Flawed process and flawed substance characterise the Northern Territory emergency response legislation, which has been rushed through Parliament in the past fortnight. It raises major questions about whether our parliamentary processes ensure adequate scrutiny of poposed legislation.
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AUSTRALIA
The following essays by Morag Fraser and John Schumann are edited addresses from the Jesuit Lenten Seminar Series held in February–March 2005.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Gerard Brennan
- 11 May 2006
Sir Gerard Brennan’s address at the launch of Mark McKenna’s This Country: A Reconciled Republic?
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 29 April 2006
Over the last year a major chasm has opened between decisions of Australia’s High Court and those of the UK House of Lords and the US Supreme Court regarding issues of national security such as the long-term mandatory detention of stateless asylum seekers.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Bec Butler, Emily Millane, Peter Pierce
- 25 April 2006
Reviews of the books Labour of Love: Tales from the World of Midwives; The Long, Slow Death of White Australia and The Dead Place.
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AUSTRALIA
- Andrew Thackrah
- 23 April 2006
The politics of crisis is undermining the rights of indigenous Australians
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AUSTRALIA
- Brian McCoy
- 23 April 2006
Fifty years ago Rosa Parks inspired African Americans by refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man, and her example is still inspiring Aboriginal people today
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AUSTRALIA
- Troy Bramston
- 20 April 2006
The final year of the Whitlam Government was tumultuous, but despite enormous obstacles and ultimate dismissal, the government implemented a visionary and far-reaching policy agenda that forever changed the face of Australia.
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AUSTRALIA
- Graham Ring
- 20 April 2006
Graham Ring on the failure of native title.
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